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8-28-05: Stem Cell Wars, Volume 1 (California Politics Today™ #410)

Since then, additional events, controversy, and commentary about California's monumental attempt to create a $3 billion stem cell research project funded with a $6 billion (at least) investment by its taxpayers have ensued. Today, in order to bring the story up to date, Etopia Media News Networks publishes

Stem Cell Wars, Volume 2, Chapter 1

"reverse validation action" brought against Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee

8-30-05: California Family Bioethics Council seeks a change of venue for consolidated Proposition 71 stem cell research "reverse validation action" from Alameda to Sacramento County (California Politics Today™ #412)

8-30-05: hESC "reprogramming" breakthrough at Harvard Medical School; alleged special pleading at the Washington Post; consolidated validation action venue is appealed; ICOC to consider three lawsuits in "closed session" (California Politics Today™ #413)

"on advice of counsel"

9-3-05: Robert Feyer, lead bond counsel for the State of California, explains the intricacies of the stem cell bond situation (California Politics Today™ #416)

9-2-05: Stuart Leavenworth, editorialist at the Sacramento Bee, calls for openness in stem cell research funding process (California Politics Today™ #417)

some part of Leland Stanford's legacy

9-4-05: Robert Klein, Chair of the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (ICOC) created by Proposition 71 to spend $3/6 billion in California taxpayers' money on embryonic stem cell research, now and then (California Politics Today™ #419)

9-5-05: A second look at a Stanford professor's study touting both "tax-free, general obligation state bonds" and "state royalty revenues of from $537 million to $1.1 billion" as reasons to vote for Proposition 71 (California Politics Today™ #420)

stem cell training grants of imaginary money

9-10-05: Proposition 71 stem cell research funding process descends into farce as conflicted ICOC panel members vote on unfunded grants for anonymous recipients (California Politics Today™ #424)

9-11-05: Names of previously-anonymous recipients of non-existent embryonic stem cell grants revealed; grantees go along with the gag, hoping for more real money later (California Politics Today™ #425)

9-13-05: Stanford's "call for applications from potential trainees" on hold; Childrens Hospital Los Angeles preparing lecture course for stem cell trainees (California Politics Today™ #426)

did Treasurer Angelides and Controller Westly keep quiet about bond issues?

9-13-05: No answers yet about whether Treasurer Phil Angelides or Controller Steve Westly knew about "tax-exempt bonds vs. revenues for California" contradiction during their campaign to pass Proposition 71 on these conflicting bases (California Politics Today™ #427)

stem cell exhibit at the Exploritorium and details of one institution's plans for the training of stem cell researchers

9-14-05: Bruce Conklin, associate investigator at the Gladstone Institute, talks about stem cell exhibit at the Exploritorium and CIRM stem cell research training grants (California Politics Today™ #428)

who should or will reap the rewards of California taxpayers' $3/6 billion investment?

9-16-05: California Assembly Select Committee on Biotechnology Chair Gene Mullin talks about who should profit from California's investment in embryonic stem cell research (California Politics Today™ #430)

9-19-05: California taxpayers unlikely to see any cash return on their $6 billion investment in stem cell research under Proposition 71 (California Politics Today™ #432)

Treasurer Angelides' spokesperson denies any communication between Robert Feyer, California's Chief Bond Counsel, and Treasurer Phil Angelides, before the November 2, 2005, vote on Proposition 71

9-20-05: California State Treasurer Phil Angelides' Director of Communications says there was no communication between state bond counsel and his office "prior to the election" (California Politics Today™ #433)

views from the Center for Genetics and Society

9-20-05: Jesse Reynolds, program director at Center for Genetics and Society, comments on a variety of stem cell-related issues (California Politics Today™ #434)

"reverse validation action" update

9-21-05: Dana Cody, attorney for People's Advocate, reports on court schedule for consideration of the "reverse validation action" lawsuit against Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee (California Politics Today™ #435)

a RAND Corporation economist comments on likely level of health care cost-reductions from Proposition 71-funded stem cell research

9-28-05: Geoff Joyce, senior economist at RAND Corporation, says of bio-medical breakthroughs, including ones funded by Proposition 71, "generally…many of these technologies are wonderful but they are not cost-reducing." (California Politics Today™ #437)

first CyberCIRM scientific conference takes place in San Francisco

9-29-05: The most comprehensive conference ever on the future of stem cell therapeutics is scheduled for October 1-2, 2005, at the Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco and will be webcast (California Politics Today™ #438)

10-1-05: CyberCIRM launched with webcast of its first scientific meeting; moderator calls stem cell research "a war on disease and it's also a war, I think, on ignorance and anti-science" (California Politics Today™ #439)

Stanford University is prepared to kill any chimeras "that display human-like behavior"

10-4-05: ICOC Chair Robert Klein urges efforts to defeat Senator Brownback's anti-chimera bill, while Stanford OKs mouse/human chimera along with plans for "immediately killing any that display human-like behavior" (California Politics Today™ #440)

hearing in San Francisco considers who should benefit from Proposition 71-funded stem cell research

10-27-05: "Halloween Hearing" in San Francisco on October 31, 2005 will feature testimony about scary Proposition 71 intellectual property (IP) issues (California Politics Today™ #446)

Proposition 71 in the context of the "scam/cover-up/scandal" cycle

10-29-05: Etopia Media News Networks covers some repeated instances of recent "scam/cover-up/scandal" cycles (California Politics Today™ #449)

"what did Treasurer Angelides know, and when did he know it?" revisited

10-30-05: October 25th Chronicle article answers September 19th California Politics Today question about what California State Treasurer Phil Angelides knew about the impossibility of the State of California getting royalty revenues from patents generated with tax-exempt stem cell bond money, and when he knew it (California Politics Today™ #450)

California Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair Dave Jones reports on and discusses the scary "Halloween Hearing" in San Francisco

10-31-05: California Assemblymember Dave Jones, Chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee and Co-Chair of the "Joint Information Hearing" on the implementation of Proposition 71, talks about today's hearing (California Politics Today™ #453)

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